Tag: Medicine
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What if you could ask the best scientists on earth any question you want, any time? New chatbots are making that a reality. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Consensus searches 200 million scholarly publications to answer questions on medicine, science, and even economics. Let’s give it a try! I…
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For generations, preventing pregnancy has fallen mostly on women. Men have few ways to help, aside from often ineffective condoms. With abortion now illegal in many states, the need for contraception is the greatest in 50 years. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! So I was excited to learn today…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! No one wants to get old. But how can we stop and even reverse aging? Perhaps a Dream Team of the world’s greatest scientists. And a whole lot of money. Well, that just became a reality. For those of us who follow venture capital, the news…
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“I could make a fortune from this,” Cuban said. “But I won’t. I’ve got enough money. I’d rather f— up the drug industry in every way possible.” Mark Cuban, Texas Monthly Never miss a post…subscribe! When you deliver something people need for less money than if they schlepped to the…
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On Tuesday night, I had the joy of attending the Top Dog Gala, a benefit for the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City. AMC saved my little gerbil’s life three times and helped him live to a ripe old age, so I love getting a chance to support…
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What would it be like to not have ears? Unfortunately, for patients with microtia, this is no hypothetical. Microtia, or lack of a fully developed ear, is a congenital condition affecting about 1 in every 6-8,000 people. Some patients have a malformed outer ear. Others have almost no ear tissue…
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Breast cancer killed 685,000 women worldwide last year. But the Cleveland Clinic has a new drug that could change that: Cleveland Clinic researchers have opened a novel study for a vaccine aimed at eventually preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease. Triple negative breast…
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A fascinating new device could one provide the elusive male contraceptive: German design graduate Rebecca Weiss has won a James Dyson Award for a male contraceptive device called Coso, which uses ultrasound waves to temporarily halt sperm regeneration. Weiss’s Coso device is designed to be a reversible contraceptive solution. To…
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In southern China near the border with Laos, there is a mine. To this day, it is heavily guarded by the Chinese government. Any journalist who tries to visit is detained. Inside the mine: the possible origin of the COVID pandemic. Scientists identified the animal that first transmitted the original…
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At 5 a.m. on Saturday, Aparna Bansal’s cellphone rang. “Can you come now?” said a man from the New Delhi hospital where her 76-year-old father is being treated for Covid-19. The instructions were clear, she said: Bring oxygen or take your father away. Her husband lines up at 4 a.m.…
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